The EHRC is failing to protect Black people’s human rights. The Joint Committee on Human Rights examined racial inequalities in Britain highlighted across health, criminal justice, immigration and democracy.
Human Rights
BLM UK gains legal status and renames as Black Liberation Movement UK
Registration enables campaign group to access donations of £1.2m. Activists from the Black Lives Matter UK campaign have placed their organisation on an official footing, marking it with a change of name.
Former soldiers angered by UK plans for Iraq war crimes ‘amnesty’
Concerns are growing among human rights groups and ex-soldiers about UK government plans for a new law to protect British soldiers from prosecution for any acts of murder or torture committed after the invasion of Iraq.
Mother of boy who died in state custody warned CPS he was in danger
The death of a 3-year-old Fort Worth boy who died Easter Sunday in state custody is being investigated as a murder, and his mother said she warned child welfare workers weeks ago that he was being physically abused.
COVID-19 is leaving refugees and asylum seekers trapped between borders
In March the Immigration & Refugee Board of Canada postponed all in-person hearings for asylum claims until at least April. On March 20, the government announced it would close its borders to asylum seekers from other countries.
Book: The Pride of an African Migrant, In Remembrance of Jimmy Mubenga
Buea, Cameroon – A former African asylum seeker in the United Kingdom has authored a book titled ‘‘The Pride of an African Migrant’, which will be released on May 4 by Pierced Rock Press’.
In world’s most vulnerable countries, the pandemic rivals 2008 crisis
As the coronavirus pandemic brings the global economy to a halt, the world’s most vulnerable countries are suffering intensifying harm, and businesses faced with the disappearance of sales are laying off workers.
The invisible children (Victims of United Kingdom prison system)
Earlier this week, the BBC released an article on their ‘newsbeat’ page in which they had spoken to who was 11 when her mum was sent to prison. Her 23-year-old sister (with a baby of her own) had to take care of Toni and her sister.
